NSCA CPT STUDY GUIDE TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● How is HR affected by chronic aerobic endurance training?
Answer: Unchanged or decreased slightly
●● Heart adaptations to chronic aerobic endurance training?
Answer: Left ventricle hypertrophy and chamber diameter increases
Coronary arteriole densities and diameters increase
●● Blood adaptations to chronic aerobic endurance training?
Answer: Increased blood volume
Increased plasma (within 24 h)
Increased red blood cell volume (within a few weeks)
●● 5 Respiratory system adaptations to chronic aerobic endurance
training?
Answer: Increased ventilatory muscle endurance, aerobic enzymes, and
tidal volume
Decreased O2 cost of breathing and breathing frequency
,●● Skeletal muscle adaptations to chronic aerobic endurance training?
Answer: Possible slight hypertrophy of type I fibers
Increased: capillary density, mitochondria density, glycogen stores,
triglyceride stores, and oxidative enzymes
●● Skeletal system adaptations to chronic aerobic endurance training?
Answer: Possible increase of BMD
●● Acute effects of aerobic exercise on BP?
Answer: Decreased BP post-exercise
●● Chronic effects of aerobic exercise on systolic/diastolic BP (for
normotensive and hypertensive trainees)?
Answer: Normotensive: 3/2 decrease
Hypertensive: 7/6 decrease
●● Three major metabolic adaptations to chronic aerobic endurance
training?
Answer: 1) Increased reliance on fat for energy
2) Increased lactate threshold
3) Increased VO2max (10-30%+)
,●● Why does connective tissue (tendons, ligaments, cartilage) take
longer to adapt to training?
Answer: CT has few living cells and poor blood supply
●● What primarily leads to aerobic endurance overtraining?
Answer: Too much volume
●● How quickly does aerobic detraining occur?
Answer: As soon as two weeks after stopping training
●● When should trainers refer clients to a nutrition professional?
Answer: When a problem is beyond trainer's competency
When clients have nutritionally affected diseases
●● What is medical nutrition therapy and under whose scope of practice
does it fall?
Answer: Nutrition info for those with nutritionally affected diseases
Under licensed nutritionists, dietitians, and registered dietitians
●● What is included in a complete dietary assessment? (4 things)
Answer: Anthropometric data
Biochemical data
Clinical exam
, Dietary intake data
●● Methods for gathering dietary intake data?
Answer: Diet recall
Diet history
Diet Record
●● What is the diet recall method?
Answer: Reporting the last 24 hour's diet from memory
●● What is the diet history method?
Answer: Collecting data on eating schedule and habits, likes, dislikes,
and medical and weight history
●● What is the diet record method?
Answer: Recording intake for 3 days
●● RMR contribution to total energy requirements?
Answer: 60-75%
●● Thermic effect of food contribution to total energy requirements?
Answer: 7-10%
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● How is HR affected by chronic aerobic endurance training?
Answer: Unchanged or decreased slightly
●● Heart adaptations to chronic aerobic endurance training?
Answer: Left ventricle hypertrophy and chamber diameter increases
Coronary arteriole densities and diameters increase
●● Blood adaptations to chronic aerobic endurance training?
Answer: Increased blood volume
Increased plasma (within 24 h)
Increased red blood cell volume (within a few weeks)
●● 5 Respiratory system adaptations to chronic aerobic endurance
training?
Answer: Increased ventilatory muscle endurance, aerobic enzymes, and
tidal volume
Decreased O2 cost of breathing and breathing frequency
,●● Skeletal muscle adaptations to chronic aerobic endurance training?
Answer: Possible slight hypertrophy of type I fibers
Increased: capillary density, mitochondria density, glycogen stores,
triglyceride stores, and oxidative enzymes
●● Skeletal system adaptations to chronic aerobic endurance training?
Answer: Possible increase of BMD
●● Acute effects of aerobic exercise on BP?
Answer: Decreased BP post-exercise
●● Chronic effects of aerobic exercise on systolic/diastolic BP (for
normotensive and hypertensive trainees)?
Answer: Normotensive: 3/2 decrease
Hypertensive: 7/6 decrease
●● Three major metabolic adaptations to chronic aerobic endurance
training?
Answer: 1) Increased reliance on fat for energy
2) Increased lactate threshold
3) Increased VO2max (10-30%+)
,●● Why does connective tissue (tendons, ligaments, cartilage) take
longer to adapt to training?
Answer: CT has few living cells and poor blood supply
●● What primarily leads to aerobic endurance overtraining?
Answer: Too much volume
●● How quickly does aerobic detraining occur?
Answer: As soon as two weeks after stopping training
●● When should trainers refer clients to a nutrition professional?
Answer: When a problem is beyond trainer's competency
When clients have nutritionally affected diseases
●● What is medical nutrition therapy and under whose scope of practice
does it fall?
Answer: Nutrition info for those with nutritionally affected diseases
Under licensed nutritionists, dietitians, and registered dietitians
●● What is included in a complete dietary assessment? (4 things)
Answer: Anthropometric data
Biochemical data
Clinical exam
, Dietary intake data
●● Methods for gathering dietary intake data?
Answer: Diet recall
Diet history
Diet Record
●● What is the diet recall method?
Answer: Reporting the last 24 hour's diet from memory
●● What is the diet history method?
Answer: Collecting data on eating schedule and habits, likes, dislikes,
and medical and weight history
●● What is the diet record method?
Answer: Recording intake for 3 days
●● RMR contribution to total energy requirements?
Answer: 60-75%
●● Thermic effect of food contribution to total energy requirements?
Answer: 7-10%
